GASTONIA
COTTON
42 CENTS TODAY
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yOL. XLI. NO. 158.
PWlBfflON HGiT IS CARRIED TO FLOOR OF THE CONVENTION
.,
TEXT OF PLATFORM IS LAID BEFORE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
BRYAN LOSES
EFFORTS TO
PLANK INTO PLATFORM
Will Renew Battle on Floor of Convention, He
Says'- Committee, Platform Silent on Prohi
bition Enforcement - Republican Party Tac
tics Are Bitterly Denounced, Particularly the
.Seating of Senator Newberry From Michigan.
(By Tli Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.-Tramed
after day. and nights of strugg with
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laid before the democratic national con-
mention today for adoption.
Further conflict In the forum of the
it-ol a ,.,l o obtain
Irish sympathizers among the delegates
fed served notice of their purpose to seek
to have that plank rewritten to include a
. .
Jiat declaration for diplomatic recogni
tion of the Irish republic.
Decisively defeated in his efforts to
force a bone dry declaration into the
committee structure, W. J. Bryan an
nounced his purpose of renewing the bat
tle on the floor. He had also "several"
amendments to committee planks to pre
sent to the convention, he added, but did
not disclose their purport.
The committee platform was silent on
prohibition enforcement. It was a long
document, efforts to produce a brief, em
phatic statement of principles having
been balked from the outset.
A wide range' of subjects were treated
including agriculture, labor, soldier relief,
and a score more domestic questions. The
preamble was brief. It was confined to
tribute to the leadership of President
Wilson.
Foremost among the planks came en
dorsement of the league of nations and
condemnation of the republican senate I
for having interposed "a partisan envy ' WAN KAXCISCO, July 2 The fol
and personal hatred" in the way of world tlowin m ,he te3tt of the platform sub-
peace. 1 he president s stand against
" ' reservations designed to cut to pieces
the vital provisions of the Versailles
treaty," was applauded, but coupled with
this declaration went the statement, writ
ten in after a prolonged committee strug
gle, that the democratic, party did not
oppose "reservations making clearer or
more specific the obligations of fhe
United States to the league associates."
Accompanying this was an assertiou
that the president had repeatedly de
clared and the convention now reaffirmed
that American obligations as a league
member ' ' must be fulfilled in strict con
formity with the constitution of the
United States, embodied in which is the
fundamental requirement of ilclaratory
action by the congress before this nation
may become a participant in any war."
The Irish plank, center of hours of
eommitt.ee dispute, was brief. The spe--ifie
reference followed a general asser
tion reaffirming the principle of national
self-determination as a war aim which
' victory established." It merely re
newed "within the limitations of inter
national comity nd usage" previous ex
pressions of the democratic party of sym
pathy with Irish aspirations for self
government. The Armenian plank also expressed
sympathy, but was silent on the question
of acceptance by the United States of a
mandate overthaj eountry for which the
president asked authority of congress.
Among other international subjects
touched upon was nonadmission of
Asiatic immigrants, declared to be as a
national policy, "a true expression of the
Judgment of our people."
The Mexican plank asserted that the
Administration, remembering in all cir
cumstances that 5fexico was an independ
ent state, had been "unwilling either to
profit by the misfortunes of fhe people
of Mexico or to enfeeble their future by
imposing from the outside a rule upon
their temporarily distracted councils."
Order was "gradually reappearing"
-there, as a result, it added, and "at no
time in many years have American live
and interests been so safe as they are
no."
On one point, throughout the platform,
eommitieemen apparently were in full ac
cord. It sharply indicted the republican
congress and the republican party on
many counts, including a warning of
-"well defined indications " of an impend
ing assault upon "Thai principles, of
the federal reserve system in the event
f a republican victory la TSovemebr. Tho
financial plank condemned, "the ' perni
cious attempt of the republican party to
OAS
OUT IN
create discontent among the holders ot
" of the government,'' and to
-fJ P T V"'.
lnR and currency system back into the
arena of Party Politics.
Failure to enact tax
revision meas-
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"yoi tax
hu'h " bounced before he last
asserted.
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! the next election "
the next election
Claims of republican public economy
were branded as "false preteuse"; but
the attack on the republicans reached its
climax in a separate plank devoted to
' ' republican corruption. ' '
This section discussed the "shocking
disclosure of the lavish use of money" by
candidates for the republican presiden
tial nomination and "the conviction of
a republican senator" from Michigan
charged with having violated campaign
expenditures I;iws, to draw the inference
that there is indicated "the re-entry, un
der republican inspires, of money as an
influential factor in elections." and
"stern popular rebuke" is invoked. The
republicans, the plank adds, control the
senate only by virtue of the Michigan
election mentioned.
TEXT OF DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM SUBMITTED
I initted to the democrat ii
national con
j vention today :
' "The democratic party, in its national
convention
now assembled, sends greet-
ings to the president of the United
States, Wood row Wilson, and hails with
patriotic pride the great achievements for
country and the world wrought by a dem
ocratic administration under his leader
ship. "It salutes the mighty jxople of this
great republic, emerging with imperish
able honor, from the severe tests and
grievious strains of the most tragic
war in history, having earned the plau
dits and the gratitude of all free na
tions. "It declares its adherence to the fun
damental progressive principles of soeia'
economic, and industrial justice and ad
vance and purposes to resume the great
work of translating these principles in
to effective laws, begun and carried far
by the democratic administration and in
terrupted only) when the war claimed all
the national energies for the single task
of victory.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The demo
cratic party favors the league of nations
as the surest, if not the only, practicable
means of maintaining the permanent
peace of the world, and terminating the
insufferable burden of great military and
naval establishments . It was for this
that America broke away from tra
ditional isolation and spent her blood
and treasure to crush a collosal scheme
of conquest. It was upon this basis that
the president of the United States, in
pje-arrangemant with our allies, consent
ed to a suspension of hostilities against
the imperial German government; the
armistice was granted and a treaty of
peace negotiated upon1 the definite as
surance to Germany, as well to the powers
pitted against Germany, -that ' ' a general
association of nations must be formed,
under specific covenants, for the purpose
' affording mutual guarantees of po
litical independence and territorial integ
rity to great and small states alike."
Hence, we not only congratulate the
president on the vision manifested and
the rigor exhibited in the prosecution of
the war; but we felicitate him and his
associates on the exceptional achieve
ments at Paris involved in tho adoption
of a league and treaty so near akin to
previously expressed American ideals and
so intimately related to the aspirations
of eiviliied peoples everywhere. "We com
mend tho president for bis courage and
bis high conception- of good faith in
steadfastly, standing for the eovenant
agreed to by all tho associated aad allied
FORCEoONEDRY
TONIA
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MXMBEX CTT THE
GASTONIA, fl. C, FRIDAY
DR. MANGUM WANTS
2,000 SATURDAY
That Number Needed From
Gastonia to Swell-Week's
Total of Vaccinated Persons
to 6,000.
Dr. C. 8. Mangum, secial agent of
the State Board of Health, in charge of
the anti-typhoid campaign in Gaston
county announces that he wants 2,000 j
people to present themselves for vac
cination Haturday in Qastonia at the
courthouse. This number is needed to
swell the total for the week to 6,000.
At the close of Thursday's work, 3,150
odd people had been vaccinated during
the first four days of the campaign. It
is thought that Friday 's totals will bring
the figures to 4,000. At Cherry ville
Thursday there were 457 vaccinated aud
at Bessemer City 310, making a total for
the day of 767. Today's schedule in
cludes a circuit of the city, Ranlo,
Groves Arlington, South Gastoniu and
Loray.
NEGROES PRAY FOR SUCCESS
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON, July 2 Ministers of
all negro churches in the country are ask
ed to offer prayer Sunday for the suc
cess of the republican candidates for sliuging campaign he was surer of victory
president and vice president in an ap- j tonight than at any time since the he
peal sent out today by the Negro Hin- ' ginning of the second primary campaign.
isterial Campaign Committee. The
prayer to be used was drafted yesterday
by a 'committee .
nations at war witli (ienuany, and we
condemn the republican senate for its re
fusal to ratify the treaty merely be
cause it was the product ot democratic
statesmanship, thus interposing partisan
envy and personal hatred in the way of
the eace an. I renewed prosperity of the
world.
By every accepted standard of inter
national morality the president is juft i
jied in asserting that the honor of the
country is involved in this business; and
we oint to the accusing fact that before
it was determined to initiate political
antagonism to the treaty, the now re
publican chairman of the senate for
eign relations committee hismeslf pub
licl.v proclaimed that any proposition for i
a separate peace, with Germany, such
as be and his party associates thereafter
rejorted to the senate, would mirke us
"guilty of the blackest crime."
On May lath, last, the Knox substi
tute for the Versailles treaty was passed
by the republican senate; and this -ou
vention can contrive no more fitting
characterization of its obloquy than that
made in the forum magazine of Ivecni
ber, lis, by Henry Cabot Lodge, when he
said :
" If we send our armies and jounjj men
abroad to be killed and wounded in
northern France and Flanders with no
result but this, our entrance into the war
with such an intention was a crime which
nothing can justify."
The intent of congress aud the intent
of the president was that there could be
no peace until we could create a situa
tion where no such war as this could re
cur. We cannot make peace except in
company with our allies. It would brand
us with everlasting dishonor and bring
ruin to us also if we undertook to make
a separae peace.
Thus to that which Mr. Lodge in saner
moments, considered "the blackest
crime" he and his party in madness
sought to give the sanctity of laws; that
which 18 months ago was of "everylast
ing dishonor," the republican party aud
its candidates today accept as the es
sence of faith.
We endorse the president 's view of our
international obligations and his firm
stand against reservations designed to
cut to pieces the vital provisions in con
gress for voting against resolutions for
separate peace which would disgrace the
nation. We advocate the immediate rati
Scat ion of the treaty without reservations
which would impair its essential integ
rity; but do not oppose the acceptance
or any reservations made any clearer or
more specific the obligations of the
United States to the league associates.
Only by doing this may we retrieve the
reputation of this nation among the
powers of the earth and recover the moral
leadership which President Wilson won
and which republican politicians at Wash
ington sacrificed. Only by doing this
may we hope to aid effectively in the
restoration of order throughout tho world
and to take the place which, we should
assume in the front rank of spiritual,
commercial and industrial advancement.
We reject as utterly rain, if not vicious
the republican assumptio nthat ratiftca-tion-
of the treaty and membership in tho
league of nations would In any way im
pair the integrity or independence of
our eountry. v- !
The fact that tho eovenant has been
' Continued on page 4).
Daily
ASSOCIATED PKESS
AFTERNOON, JULY .2, 1920
I MAX GARDNER SPEAKS
TO GOOD SIZED CROWD
Audience of 500 r 600 That
Fills Court House Hears Can
didate Present Claims
Speaks at Reidsvilltf Tonight.
The following account of the speech
of O. Max Gardner in Gastonia Thurs-
j day night appeared in The Charlotte Ob
server Friday morning. Although ap
pearing under a Gastonia date line, it
was not furnished by the Observer's reg
ular correspondent in Gastonia.
The account:
Three thousand and more North Caro
linians, largely from Gaston county, but
with large delegations from Rutherford,
Mecklenburg, Cleveland and other near
by counties well represented, heard Lieu
tenant Governor O. Max Gardner clear
ly and concisely define his ideals and as
piration in his race for the democratic
gubernatorial nomination here tonight .
It was said by many old timers to be
the most enthusiastic crowd ever gather
ed for a political meeting in Gaston coun
ty. Smiling and with no show of vin
dictiveness Mr. Gardner said that al
though he had been the victim of u mud
He assured his friends that from every
city, village, hamlet, hillside ami valley
throughout the length and breadth of the
old North State came the word that the
drift was undeniably toward his candi
dacy, based on the sipiare deal issue and
that he would be nominated bv a ma
jority which would surprise even his most
optimistic friends.
Following long t r i j from Wilson,
Mr. Gardner stopped ert route at Bel
mont where he attended a bull game and
vas a recipient of round after round of
applause and the fans who remembered
nat Gardner in his younger days had won
honors on the athletic fields seldom snr
passed in this state.
The lieutenant governor will make his
final speech of this strenuous campaign
in Reidsville tomorrow night.
CHARLOTTE SUPERINTENDENT
SORE AT GASTONIA
Prof. Harding Says That Gas
ton County is Taking too
Many Charlotte and Meck
lenburg Teachers.
In connection with the published state
ment in The Gazette a few days ago
concerning the deficit in Gaston county
school funds, the following from Friday's
Charlotte Observer will be of interest:
"While Charlotte helps to pay the
$ti,(K0 bounty that the state gives to
Gaston county Gastonia turns right
around and conies over here aud offers
our teachers more money and in some
instances gets them.-' declared II. I.
Harding, superintendent of schools, yes
terday, speaking of the Brooks Joyner
"pauper county" educational bill.
The Charlotte superintendent was all
"het up" over the alleged unfairness of
the system that forces cue county to pay
into the general fund " good hard earned
money" for some other county tosieiid.
He was emphatic in his declarations that
Mecklenburg is suffering from the work
ings of the present educational system
because the county pays to the state more
than it ever receives in return. The Gas
ton county case is unique, Mr. Harding
said, because Orange county, with only
three cotton mills helps to pay the bounty
to Gaston county, with its 9 mills, the
county claimed to be in the lead of the
textile development of the south.
The system of paying the bounties to
the various counties is based on the num
ler of teacher-; in the county and not
the per capita school population, Mr.
Harding said. Asked as to how Gaston
county happened to receive such a large
sum from the state, the Charlotte school
head replied that the authorities must
have built plenty of school buildings
with small classes and expected the other
counties of the state to help pay the
teachers' salaries.
Injured in Auto Accident.
Mr. Lee Mulhn was painfully and seri
ously injured this morning at three
o 'clock on the York road near the South
ern Railway pump station. Mr. Mullin,
who runs a Drug Store in South Gas
tonia, was on his way home from Char
lotte when one of the front wheels of
his ear ran. off. . As a result his -bead
was dashed through tho upper wind shield
of. the ear, the lower ono cutting his
throat. As soon as possible after the ac
cident ho war brought to the City Hos
pital where his injuries ware dressed by
Dr. Sloan.
OAZETTE
BRYAN AND COLBY WILL
FACE EACH OTHER IN
BITTER FIGHT TO FISH
Crowds Throng Convention Floor to Hear Com
moner's Fighting Speech - Bryan Announces
For "Platform No Wet Can Run On" - Colby.
Secretary of State Will Present Committee
Manager's Side of Question - Bitter Struggle
In Prospect.
(By The Associated I'ress.)
WAN FRANCISCO, July -'. A duy be-
J(inil schedule aud with the hardest and
must important of its work si ill ahead,
the democratic national convent ion re
sumed this morning at 10 o'clock to heat
the report of the platform committee and
face the inevitable floor fight over the
prohibition, as well as probable fights
over the league of nations and the Irish
question.
l: .. or . . i. i:er..
t rider the program agree.l upon Mr.
Bryan will present his side of the ques - i
tion in a speech limited to JO minutes
and Bainbridge Colby, secretary of statet
will present the committee manager's
side in another 30 minutes. That ar- j
rangement, however, does not by any j
means confine the discussion to one hour.
Any number of persons desiring to speak,
who may be recognized by Permanent
Chairman Robinson, also may be heard
for 30 minutes each. In view of Mr.
Bryan's well known fighting spirit and
his demonstrated staying qualities, no
one is bold enough to predict that the
fight will be a short one. Mr. Bryan's
repeatedly announced determination for
a "platform no wet, can run on" and
his announcements of last night assured
a prolonged struggle, and even though
t tie predictions of the administration
forces that they would lie able to "choke
Bryan off" were to be fulfilled, there i
was no prospect that they would be car
ried out quickly.
Exactly what took place in the meet
ings of the resolutions committee last
night has not been fully disclosed, but
it is known th when at the close of
the afternoon session all prohibition
planks were voted out of the platform,
Mr. Bryan in a long and fiery sieech
told the committeemen that while he real
ized tlmt the administration forces had
the votes to put over their program they
would do so at the peril of his opposition.
Whatever was the full import of what
Mr. Bryan threatened it was sufficienCto
cause the committee, after being all ready
to make its report, to reconsider its de
dsion and decide to hear Mr. Bry&n at
a further session while the convention
waited. At this session, Mr. Bryan, it is
said, continued his attack on the admin
istratiou forces who pleaded with him not
to pursue a course which would make for
party discord aud endanger party success
in November. Mr. Bryan, however, re
ports from inside the committee room
said, was adamant, and the majority
finally gave up all hopes of conciliating
him and decided to face the proposition
of an open tight on the floor.
With these prospects before it, the con
vention when it resumed today faced the
possibility of a program that might carry
H far into a night session after probably
a brief recess for dinner. Whether the
floor battles eonld be ended in time to
take up balloting for a nominee before
the, convention , would have to -quit from
sheer exhsustion, was a question. "
The MeAdoo boomers took advantage
of the interruption in tho program to
eonEnne strengthening their line-up.
Although they had opposed a suspension
of tho rales and a proposition to proceed
to balloting ahead of the report of4he
platform committee early yesterday, they
wers ready to .accept thai program last
.ui(imKiii eui.iis 10 conimc me uuei on atiuitions to their candidates as a sed
eiice over the wet and dry issue in the j ond choice. The McAdoo boomers wero
platform committee failed after pro- so confident of their position as to pre-
longed hours of argument, acrimony audi ,jy.t a nomination for him otf the fifth
oratory. When all the eleventh hour at ' '.allot, if not. before. .
tempts at harmony were given up. it was The smouldering ticket scandal inthe
announced finally that all proposals to in- . convention broke out yesterday in a fist
elude any kin. I of prohibition plan k j fight in which Chairman Bobinson had an -whatever
had been beaten by decisive ; encounter with I'aul M. Schwartz, of In-
votes, and that the question would be , dianapolis, a stenographer to Thomas
brought to' the open floor of the conven- Taggart. of Indiana. When Senator
' j Robinson, so the story runs, called on
Last night's disappointed crowds which j Schwartz for his allotment of tickets, isr
had packed theNgreat civic auditorium was questioned concerning his choice for
from floor to rafters keen on the spec- ( the presidential nominee, and the Senator
tacle of W. J. Bryan setting off the fire- replied with his fists and a demand for
works, trailed to the convention again the. discharge of Schwartz by the na
today determined not to be cheated out : tional committee from his place as ah
of the show by postponements or delays, j employe in the convention organisation!
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night, but those who had agreed to the
idea earlier would not go on with it be
acuse the McAdoo forces had been using
the interim to strengthen their position.
There were iathnatious of the convex
tion being packed at last night's session
with an eye to the possibilities of a stam
pede. Cox forces, while sure of their del-
I egates standing firm, acknowledged thaa
they had not been fortunate in making
accessions, and among the Palmer dele
gates the McAdoo people were counting
..... .... ....
Committee officials explained Hie'mll-
-BP
as "a misunderstanding."
'Stories of wbole blocks of Hckefs dis
appearing have been current and at last
night's session although the convention
hall was packed, more than five thousanTI
people with properly issued tickets eonld
not get in. How their places came to be
filled by others was not explained.
TEACHERS MAY ATTEND
LENOIR SUMMER SCHOOL
Provision Made at Lenoir Col
lege For Approved Summer
School Begins July 12.
In view of the fact that summer schools
for teachers in the state are overrun with
I teachers Uiis summer and many are being
turned away, the following from Stato
Superintendent E. C. Brooks will be of
interest and of value to many school
teachers in the county: i-
To City and County Superintendent.
Gentlemen :
The approved summer schools of tha
State are over run. Many teachers havo
not been able to secure accommodations.
The authorities at Lenoir College have
generously consented to conduct an ap
proved summer school at that institutio)V
beginning July 12th. In case any of
your teachers have desired to attend a
summer school and have not been able to
.secure accommodations please call their
attention to this. The work necessary
For elementary, primary, grammar grade
and high school teachers will be provided.'
The rates are very moderate. For further'
information address: : ; '..
President J. C. Perry, Lenoir College, .
Hickory, N. C. .
The Department is making every effort
to establish still other approved summer'
schools in the State. "Note will be sent 1
you" as soon as they are established. '
Very sincerely yours, - ; -'
E. a BEOOK8.
State 6upt Public Instruction.
Capital Increased.
Authorization was received yesterday
from the comptroller of tho currency by
the officers of the Third National Bank
to Increase the bank's vapital stock from
k $100,000 far 1250,000 effectivo at cnee.
This bank," only eight months old, ha
.total resources of more than a mr'" -dollars.
Its growth since or"-
has been steady and rapid ' 1 :
are being congratulate 1
progress mad a. Ht. J.
president-and
eashier," -